Many of the top-performing models that you see on the MTEB retrieval for English and Chinese tend to overfit to the benchmark nowadays. voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite are also pretty small in size compared to a lot of the 7B models that take the top spots, and we don't want to hurt performance on other real-world tasks just to do well on MTEB.
Many of the top-performing models that you see on the MTEB retrieval for English and Chinese tend to overfit to the benchmark nowadays. voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite are also pretty small in size compared to a lot of the 7B models that take the top spots, and we don't want to hurt performance on other real-world tasks just to do well on MTEB.